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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Did He Say Jump?

Sometimes it’s all about the good fight. You try not to ship
too high, or bring overwhelming force in the hope that your enemy will feel
comfortable engaging you.

And other times, it’s simply about burning everything to the
ground.

I logged in last night to a sleepy corp. Many were online,
but few seemed active. Until, Punchy, one of our directors and FCs, logged in
and announced abruptly that he was starting a fleet.

Now, I’ve flown with Punchy many years now. And in flying
with someone that long you start to learn little things –like the frame of mind
they are in by the tone of their voice. I jumped into fleet very quickly, for
Punchy’s particular tone of voice last night told me that some sort of
spaceship violence would be occurring in short order.

It didn’t take long to whip up an armor HAC gang with
Guardian support. And it quickly became evident to me that we had a
destination, a target, and an Ace up our sleeve. Even though on the outside our
little gang looked like a standard, spontaneous cruiser roam.

Sure enough, as soon as Punchy made the call to depart, we
were burning toward Enaluri –the home system of Did he say jump? Alliance and
their FC, Predator Elite.

We set up in a Medium Plex, aligned out to the Hallanen
gate. We were burned nearly 100K off the warp-in when Predator’s fleet finally
arrived, closely matched to our own with armor HACs, armor cruisers, and
several Guardians.

As soon as hostiles began landing on field, the command was
made for our fleet to warp to Hallanen, and jump upon arrival. And so we did.

The End

(Just Kidding)

Pred’s fleet followed close behind, and we began to engage
them quickly as they followed us into Hallanen.

Both sides were fully committed in the fight, and we were
fairly evenly matched. That is, until our surprise arrived –a medium sized
fleet of arty sleipners belonging to ‘The Bastion’ –who had decided to come
around to our neck of the woods to visit a friend of theirs in IFW.

It was a classic EVE ganking, and it didn’t take long for
Pred’s fleet to realize it. They began disengaging and escaping back through
the gate.

Now, it is typically the case in this scenario that you gank
your prey, you giggle a little, and then you go home. But it was apparently not
just Punchy who wanted to make things explode last night. Intel quickly alerted
us to the fact that Pred’s gang was shipping up –to battleships.

Battleships including Faction Battleships and Vindicators,
with no logistics. Which, could only mean ones thing. They were bringing
triage.

After a few minutes of watching them reform into their new
comp, Punchy had us warp to the Large Plex within the system. While it wouldn’t
completely prevent triage from arriving, it would make things a little more
difficult as cynos cannot be lit inside FW plexes.

We then started getting more alliance mates into fleet. It’s
amazing how many people who were ‘AFK’ suddenly are not AFK when there’s the possibility
of capital kills.

A cyno went up, and Pred’s triage entered system. Local
climbed as more of our own guys arrived –in a few BSes of our own. A few folks
asked if we wanted to bring our own triage, but the call was made to not
bringing any caps of our own.

Local spiked with the hostile battleship fleet, and as they
landed inside the plex, their triage carrier –an archon –arrived with them.

Their triage held up fairly well as we began testing
squishier targets. Our logistics were getting heavily neuted by Armageddons,
but we had brought some neuting power of our own in the form of Bhaalgorns,
which were slowly working on the triage’s capacitor.

The Bastion lost a logi, but it was simply not going to be
Pred’s day. Even as his second carrier –a Thanatos—arrived to assist the first
one.

Around the time the Archon died, a third carrier arrived –another
Archon.

In the end we killed all three carriers, two vindicators and
a bunch of other stuff. The Bastion lost a ship or two, and Snuffed Out managed
to end the fight with no losses. (Probably because I wasn’t flying logi…lol)

Over all it was a good night. And as someone cheekily
commented as we were going home, “we didn’t even have to drop supers.”

2 comments:

relatively good summary of events. from the bastion side of things, we only lost a rook because the pilot using the wrong anchor and exceeding logi range. both sides put up one hell of a fight, and from what I gathered from our dudes ewar played a role in keeping the jump fleet from full dps, and apparently jammed out the thanny, lol

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